Posted Enero 31, 2008 by Canto Rodado Categories:Legally Piggily
Esta cita la encontré en el último Best Seller de Gore Vidal llamado
Blood for Oil and the Bush-Cheney Junta
The Most Dreaded Enemy of Liberty
by James Madison, August 1993
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. . . . [There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and . . . degeneracy of manners and of morals. . . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. . . .
Washington D.C., February 4, 2005 – Today the National Security Archive posted the CIA’s secret documentary history of the U.S government’s relationship with General Reinhard Gehlen, the German army’s intelligence chief for the Eastern Front during World War II. At the end of the war, Gehlen established a close relationship with the U.S. and successfully maintained his intelligence network (it ultimately became the West German BND) even though he employed numerous former Nazis and known war criminals. The use of Gehlen’s group, according to the CIA history, Forging an Intelligence Partnership: CIA and the Origins of the BND, 1945-49, was a “double edged sword” that “boosted the Warsaw Pact’s propaganda efforts” and “suffered devastating penetrations by the KGB.”
Posted Enero 22, 2008 by Canto Rodado Categories:Psicodelia
A la mezcla de Lounge, Electrónica y World Music le llego lahora del Vallenato. Y al Vallenato le llego la hora de su electronificación y globalización. Un botón.
Posted Noviembre 19, 2007 by Canto Rodado Categories:Textura Cotidiana
Welcome To The New World Order. This is the takeover of our former governmental institutions to be turned into GESTAPO very soon. Hang your heads in shame and hide your faces from your grandchildren for they will HATE you with a vengence for the future you allowed to be. Obelisks and pyramids, the signatures of those who would rule over us BLATANTLY put on display under cover of symbolism. You sheeple, you zombies!
Posted Noviembre 19, 2007 by Canto Rodado Categories:Psicodelia
Donovan was not of the sixties or seventies or of any other
time period. But thankfully, he has been with us since the
sixties, and against that backdrop of psychedelia, he looks
quite fine. The Gift From a Flower to a Garden album is a
tour de force of humanness. Gift was released as a
two-record boxed set featuring glowing color prints of
Donovan in fantasy attire alone and communing with the
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, also of Beatles fame. One of the two
records was entitled For Little Ones and was filled with
music suitable for children. Many of the songs are
characterized by a mood of gentle fantasy, with exquisite
lyrics evoking brilliant and surprising images, laid over
smoothly-structured, elegantly simple acoustical guitar
arrangements. by Charles Carreon
Dreamachine Plans of Brion Gysin
“Had a transcendental storm of colour visions today in the bus going to Marseilles. We ran through a long avenue of trees and I closed my eyes against the setting sun. An overwhelming flood of intensely bright colors exploded behind my eyelids: a multidimensional kaleidoscope whirling out through space. I was swept out of time. I was out in a world of infinite number. The vision stopped abruptly as we left the trees. Was that a vision? What happened to me?”
xtract from the diary of
Brion Gysin
December 21, 1958
Brion Gysin found the explanation for this unusual experience a few years later when William S. Burroughs lent him a copy of The Living Brain by Dr. W. Grey Walter. Dr. Walter was a neurophysiologist and an early researcher into the nature of brain waves and corresponding brain function. Ian Sommerville, a friend of Gysin and Burroughs, had also read the book. Sommerville decided to build a machine to reproduce the flickering effect that Gysin had described. On February 15, 1959 Sommerville wrote to Gysin from Cambridge,
“I have made a simple flicker machine. You look at it with your eyes shut and the flicker plays over your eyelids. Visions start with a kaleidoscope of colors on a plane in front of the eyes and gradually become more complex and beautiful, breaking like surf on a shore until whole patterns of color are pounding to get in. After awhile the visions were permanently behind my eyelids and I was in the middle of the whole scene with limitless patterns being generated around me. There was an almost unbearable feeling of spatial movement for a while but It was well worth getting through for I found that when it stopped I was high above the earth in a universal blaze of glory. Afterwards I found that my perception of the world around me had increased very notably. All conceptions of being dragged or tired had dropped away…”
From Sommerville’s description of the flicker machine Brion Gysin built the Dreamachine in the early 1960’s in the Beat Hotel on the rue Gît-le-Cœur, Paris. Gysin obtained a patent in 1961. The results of the experiments were published in the arts periodical of Olympia, Number 2, January 1962.
The Dreamachine consists of a cylinder with holes in it attached to a record-player turntable. In the middle of the cylinder sits a light bulb. The turntable is set to spin at 78 RPM. Subjects sit in front of the cylinder and close their eyes. The light shines through the holes in the spinning cylinder and flickers on the eyelids. The light flickers at a frequency of about 20 Hz which is similar to the frequency of Alpha brain waves which are associated with a non-aroused brain.
Heredero de una de las más grandes fortunas bancarias de la Europa del siglo XIX, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) renunció al manejo del legado familiar para dedicarse a los estudios sobre el Renacimiento y la persistencia de la tradición clásica. Así pudo reunir la Biblioteca Warburg, uno de los más extraordinarios tesoros de libros, documentos e imágenes sobre el arte y la civilización europeas desde la Antigüedad. La Biblioteca funcionó en Hamburgo entre 1909 y 1933, y bajo la presión del poder nazi se trasladó a Londres, donde se encuentra hoy. En los años 90 renació el interés por sus ideas en Europa. J.E. Burucúa ha sido responsable de su introducción a nuestro país, con “Historia de las imágenes e historia de las ideas. La escuela de Aby Warburg” (CEAL, 1990). Las ideas de Warburg, repletas de perspectivas de asombrosa actualidad, incluyen cuatro nociones sobre los mecanismos de transmisión cultural:
1) El concepto de “vuelta a la vida de lo antiguo” (Nachleben der Antike), el retorno de las formas estéticas y emociones que ellas desencadenan desde un pasado dormido.
2) La noción de fórmula emotiva (Pathosformel), organización de formas significantes que generan poderosas e intensas emociones (como la Ninfa portadora del sentimiento de vitalidad asociados a una vida joven). El “Nachleben” se centra en la reaparición de “Pathosformeln” provenientes de un pasado fundante y a la vez negado en el presente.
3) El concepto de la esquizofrenia inevitable de toda cultura, que se asienta en el hecho de que cada fórmula puede desencadenar una emoción y su opuesta.
4) La noción de espacio para el pensar, distancia necesaria en la relación del hombre con su entorno. La magia, luego la ciencia y la técnica, son sus formas históricas. Las “Pathosformeln” permiten distanciarse de las emociones y aprender a vivir con ellas.
Dreamachine Plans of Brion Gysin